Chapter 1002

This sense of abnormality came from her "former" memories.

But even so, Young Yuanzi could not clearly pinpoint where the problem lay.

If an ordinary person's lifespan is a hundred years, then Young Yuanzi, adding up the time before and after, had already exceeded that by quite a lot; even factoring in the thousand years of slumber, she was already a monster-level existence.

Her former memories were blurred and unclear; she could no longer even recall the face of her previous life's self.

Not to mention close friends and relatives—as she gradually accepted her present self, it only accelerated the fading of "his" memories; if even something this important could be forgotten, there was no need to mention the detailed plots of literary works.

But even so, Xiang Lincheng was still vastly different from her character setting, and Young Yuanzi cared greatly about this point.

Precisely because she cared about it so strongly for no reason at all, she forced herself to recall everything about the other party—a shy, cowardly girl who always chased after Naruto's footsteps?

Being able to defeat Jiliang Miye, who had activated "Dragon Pattern," without any pressure—this kind of strength was something Hyuga Rintaro simply should not possess; in other words, this was abnormal.

Young Yuanzi's feelings were very complicated: on one hand, she did not want anything to happen to Lin Cheng; on the other, she worried that the truth of the matter would be very serious.

What she feared was—Hinata Rintaro was no longer Hinata Rintaro, replaced by someone else wearing Lin Cheng's skin.

This hypothesis was terrible; transmigration and the like were fine for someone like herself who reincarnated and crossed over, but if it was something like borrowing a corpse to return to the soul, it was necessary to confirm—not only to confirm the abnormality with Lin Cheng, but also why she herself would develop a special feeling toward him.

Young Yuanzi paid no attention to the subsequent matches; she was tailing Lin Cheng, wanting to uncover the other's abnormality. Unfortunately, however, after leaving the third-round examination hall, Lin Cheng headed straight back to the Hyuga compound, and after considering it, Young Yuanzi judged the timing was not yet ripe and that she should look for another opportunity.

The two-day selection elimination tournament ended quickly; the final twelve advancing genin had been decided. Regardless of who became champion in the final battle, all twelve of them would become chunin; what everyone was truly fighting for now had actually shifted to which hidden village the champion would belong to.

(Wang, Li, Zhao) random draw, then paired combat until the final victor emerged—such was the simple rule.

The finals would conclude within a single day, and Young Yuanzi sat beside the Third Hokage, her attention focused on any surprise attack Sarutobi Hiruzen might encounter.

Time rewound to when Young Yuanzi had rushed to the Hyuga residence and rescued Hanabi.

"Lin Cheng isn't here?" She roughly scanned the entire Hyuga clan's territory.

She found no trace of Lin Cheng. Although he was one of the victors of the third exam, because his match had been scheduled so late, no one minded the small matter of him not attending the finals' opening ceremony.

This really is a great thing!